The millenarian turn : millenarian contexts of science, politics, and everyday Anglo-American life in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
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The millenarian turn : millenarian contexts of science, politics, and everyday Anglo-American life in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
（Archives internationales d'histoire des idées = International archives of the history of ideas, 175 . Millenarianism and Messianism in early modern European culture ; v. 3）
Kluwer Academic Publishers, c2001
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The influence of millenarian thinking upon Cromwell's England is well-known. The cultural and intellectual conceptions of the role of millenarian ideas in the `long' 18th century when, so the `official' story goes, the religious sceptics and deists of Enlightened England effectively tarred such religious radicalism as `enthusiasm' has been less well examined. This volume endeavors to revise this `official' story and to trace the influence of millenarian ideas in the science, politics, and everyday life of England and America in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- R.H. Popkin. Introduction
- J.E. Force. Essay 1: The Appropriation of Joseph Mede. Millenarianism in the 1640s
- S. Hutton. Essay 2: Britain and the Beast: The Apocalypse and the Seventeenth-Century Debate about the Creation of the British State
- A.H. Williamson. Essay 3: A Whig Apocalypse: Millenarianism, Astrology, and Politics in the Restoration Crisis, 1678-1683
- W. Burns. Essay 4: Boyle on Knowledge of Nature in the Afterlife
- M.J. Osler. Essay 5: Robert Boyle, the Conversion of the Jews, and Millennial Expectations
- J. Wojcik. Essay 6: The Virgin, the Dynamo, and Newton's Prophetic History
- J.E. Force. Essay 7: `The Mystery of This Restitution of All Things': Isaac Newton on the Return of the Jews
- S. Snobelen. Essay 8: The Occult Bible: Hebraic Millenarianism in Eighteenth-Century England
- D.S. Katz. Essay 9: David and Goliath: Jewish Conversion and Philosemitism in Late-Eighteenth-Century Millenarian Thought
- J. Fruchman, Jr. Essay 10: Caveat Emptor: Pre- and Postmillennialism in the Late Reformation Period
- R. Smolinski. Essay 11: The Eschatology of Everyday Things, England, 1600-1800
- H. Schwartz. Index.
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